Rosanna Costa

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Rosanna Costa Costa
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President of the Central Bank of Chile
Assumed office
3 February 2022
Preceded byMario Marcel
Counselor of the Central Bank of Chile
Assumed office
18 January 2017
Preceded byRodrigo Vergara
Director of the Budget Division Chile
In office
11 March 2010 – 10 March 2014
Preceded bySergio Granados Roldán
Succeeded bySergio Granados Roldàn
Personal details
Born
Rosanna Maria Assunta Costa Costa

(1957-12-06) December 6, 1957 (age 64)
Viña del Mar, Chile
WebsiteOfficial website

Rosanna Maria Assunta Costa Costa (Vina del Mar, 6 December 1957) is a Chilean economist, academic and researcher. Currently Governor of the Central Bank of Chile, She was the director of Presupuestos during the government of president Sebastián Piñera (2010-2014).

Professional career[]

She moved to the capital when she was young. She studied at the Saint Gabriel School and then commercial engineering with a focus on economics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) following in the footsteps of her father, Horacio, who also studied for the same career before working at the state petroleum company Empresa Nacional del Petróleo (Enap).[1][2][3] Among her generation colleagues were Felipe Larrain and Francisco Pérez Mackenna.

She spent her first years as a professional at the PUC, where she focused on teaching and research activities.

In 1984 she returns to work at the Central Bank of Chile (Banco Central de Chile) in the National Accounts Department. Afterwards she moved to Estudios, where she met economists Juan Andrés Fontaine and . One of her tasks in the company was to coordinate with the International Monetary Fund that the limits imposed are respected during the time Chile has an agreement with the organisation. She also led the monetary program team. She remained with the company until 1992, even after the end of Augusto Pinochet's government (1973-1990).

Costa then started working at the neoliberal Liberty and Development Institute (Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo) think-thank, focusing on investigation in the macroeconomic, fiscal, judicial and labor fields. She was a member of the Pension Reform Commission and the Equity Commission, both formed by president Michelle Bachelet.

References[]

  1. ^ S.A.P., El Mercurio. "Rosanna Costa: La mujer de las finanzas chilenas". diario.elmercurio.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 2016-12-08.
  2. ^ S.A.P., El Mercurio. "La mujer fuerte de la oposición en el debate económico". diario.elmercurio.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 2016-12-08.
  3. ^ Diario Financiero (Santiago), 16 de febrero de 2010
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